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Advance Prevention Solutions

🌟 Ohio’s Youth Are Facing a Preventable Crisis — Your Support Changes the Story

Montgomery County continues to battle a long‑running substance‑use crisis, especially involving opioids and fentanyl. In 2023 alone, Ohio lost 4,452 people to unintentional overdoses — a rate of 35.9 per 100,000 residents.

Behind every statistic is a child who is struggling long before they ever encounter substances. Many of the youth who later overdose are facing the same barriers today:

No reliable transportation
No access to consistent mentors
No clear path to a job or future
No supportive adult walking with them
No hope

Your support places trained mentors and tutors in classrooms and churches — giving students the stability, encouragement, and daily support that prevents future crises.

🧡 Our Strength: A Startup With Powerful Partnerships

GrandParents Hands & Children Charity is a startup nonprofit, but we are not starting alone. We are building on the strength of established partners while bringing something new and urgently needed to Ohio’s youth

We are proudly:

Becoming certified through Fresh Hope for Mental Health
Entering a collaboration with the Montgomery Mentoring Collaboration
Aligning with WIOA to create employment pathways for youth
Building a pipeline for mentors, tutors, and future community leaders

These partnerships strengthen our work — but our focus remains on the unique role we play:

consistent, daily mentoring that fills the gaps no one else is filling.

⭐ What Makes GrandParents Hands & Children Charity Different

1. Daily, Consistent Mentoring

Most programs visit occasionally.

We show up every day.

Consistency builds trust — and trust changes behavior.

2. A Pipeline to Employment

We help youth explore careers, build skills, and connect to WIOA‑aligned opportunities.

Hope grows when a young person can see a future.

3. Faith‑Rooted Mental Health Support

Through Fresh Hope for Mental Health, we bring stigma‑free emotional support into churches — a lifeline for teens who feel alone.

4. Community‑Based Prevention

We partner with schools, churches, and prevention agencies to support youth where they already are.

5. A Focus on the Whole Child

Academic support, emotional support, and future planning — all in one relationship.

Fuel Local Growth through Job Training and Education

⛪ Fresh Hope Youth Program

A lifeline for teens who feel alone

Many teens in Montgomery County are carrying heavy emotional burdens — anxiety, depression, family instability, and the ripple effects of substance use at home.

Fresh Hope for Mental Health provides faith‑rooted, stigma‑free support groups inside local churches, giving teens:

A safe place to talk
A community that listens
Hope for their future
Tools to manage stress and emotions
Caring adults who show up consistently

When churches partner with schools, prevention becomes stronger — and donors help make that partnership possible.

🧡 The Montgomery Mentoring Collaboration

GrandParents Hands & Children Charities is proud to be part of the Montgomery Mentoring Collaboration, a county‑aligned effort to strengthen prevention through:

💛 Why Your Support Matters Now

Teachers are overwhelmed. Prevention agencies are stretched thin. Churches want to help but need trained leaders.

💼 WIOA & Employment Pathways

Hope grows when youth can see a future

Many youth at risk of substance use or overdose lack access to:

Job opportunities
Career guidance
Transportation
Adult support

We are building a pipeline to employment that connects youth to WIOA‑aligned training, job readiness, and real opportunities.

Mentoring is the bridge — employment is the destination.

🌱 What Your Gift Makes Possible

Transportation to bring a student to school.

Supports one week of in‑class mentoring/tutoring for a student

Provides academic and emotional support for a student for an entire month

Helps launch a new school or church partnership in a high‑need community

Your generosity strengthens the entire prevention system — one classroom, one church, one student at a time.

Montgomery County has strong prevention partners, but students need daily support inside the classroom to stay engaged, confident, and connected. GrandParents Hands & Children Charities strengthens the county’s prevention system by placing caring mentors where they make the biggest difference—right beside the students who need them most.

Fuel Local Growth through Job Training and Education

💬 A Story of Hope

A 7th‑grade student in Dayton was failing three classes and skipping school. After three weeks with a Strength Mentor, her attendance stabilized, her confidence returned, and she passed every class that quarter. Her teacher said, “She just needed one adult who didn’t give up on her.”

This is what your support makes possible.

Become A Mentor

💛 Join Us in Giving Youth a Reason for Hope

Donate Today

Help ensure no student faces the school day alone.

Sponsor a Classroom or Church Group

Partner with us to bring daily mentoring and Fresh Hope support to high‑need communities.

Become a Monthly Prevention Partner

Your steady support creates steady support for students.

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